Saturday, September 1, 2012

Column: How to Fix An 'Upside-Down' Immigration System

Dear friends, I've written anew columnbased on one of the discussions that came up at Palmer Conference earlier this summer. It's about how Canada should revamp it's immigration policy. I know, I know, it's not a sexy topic, but it's incredibly important and the idea in the column is one that I've haven't heard seriously discussed anywhere.

"You know all those "illegal aliens," meaning the Mexican migrant workers that the Americans want to throw out? If we had any sense, we'd bring them to Canada.

It is not an idea you hear very often. But it is exactly what James McNiven proposed, albeit more for dramatic effect, at the annual Palmer Conference on immigration at the University of PEI this summer."

"Ask any immigrant to this country, and they'll tell you the two cruelest words they've had to encounter while looking for a job in their field of expertise are "Canadian experience."

If you're a newcomer to this country how are you supposed to have any? Thus begins the cycle of underemployment among so many of Canada's immigrants."

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